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Which hoax specifically was completely fabricated by the newspapers and spread by multiple newspapers? State run media obviously doesn't count.

Poor source checking and then issuing a retraction is not the same as a conspiracy among the papers to make something up completely.

newspapers get paid by the click

why would you respond to the question with an unrelated question instead of answering directly?

because incentives are the same

if that were true, you could have answered the question directly

you couldn't, suggesting that it isn't true

by the way, you forgot to respond to [0]